CSV Injection in CSV files generated by the backend in limesurvey/limesurvey

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Reported on

Mar 12th 2023


1 login in https://demo.limesurvey.org/index.php

2 the demo admin create a user with name "=1+cmd|'/C calc'!A0".

4 other users login and download all the users' data as csv.

5 other users open the csv file with execl in windows, notice that choose ";" as separator as.

6 we can see that the calculator is opened.

see the poc : https://1drv.ms/v/s!AksJ421iyCG-mTLhbaTcZ8yrfDaq?e=5zhBH5

see https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/CSV_Injection to fix it.



# Impact

Hijacking the user’s computer

Exfiltrating contents from the spreadsheet, or other open spreadsheets.
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Carsten Schmitz modified the Severity from High (8) to Medium (4.3) 2 months ago
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Carsten Schmitz marked this as fixed in 5.6.11 with commit 953122 2 months ago
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This vulnerability is scheduled to go public on Mar 27th 2023
Carsten Schmitz published this vulnerability 2 months ago
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